The two first years turned around and squeaked when they saw the red head behind them.

"W-w-we aren't h-hiding anything!" Kathy said nervously.

"Y-yeah," Sarah agreed.

"The expressions on your faces would say otherwise. What happened when I told you to watch them?" Ron said towering above them.

"N-n-nothing!" Sarah squeaked.

"That's not true! Tell me what happened!" he said sternly.

"U-um..." Kathy really liked Legolas and she didn't want to go tattling on him to this boy.

"Nothing happened! They were just talking, but we didn't hear what they were saying!" Sarah said.

"I don't believe you! I saw the guilty look on your face when I walked up to them! Tell what happened!" he said grabbing Sarah by the shoulders and shaking her slightly.

"They kissed, okay?! That's all! Now leave me alone!" Sarah twisted out of his suddenly loosened grip and her and Kathy ran to the Gryffindor tower.

Ron stood in the hall looking at nothing for a while. They had kissed? What was Hermione thinking? He had wanted for so long to ask her out, but now here she was kissing the new elf at breakfast! Fuming, he walked slowly out side to think.

***

Hermione walked into the common room and spotted Legolas and Harry by the fire. Legolas seemed to be trying to think of a way to get back at Harry, while Harry was cleaning his broom.

Hermione went and sat on the arm of Legolas's chair.

"Hello, Leggypoo," she said mischievously.

"Don't you start!" he said smiling up at her.

She smiled back at him and they just sat there looking into each other's eyes.

Harry looked from Hermione to Legolas, from Legolas to Hermione.

"There's something you aren't telling me..." he said slowly and they looked up at him.

Hermione blushed. "Actually there is. Um... you see me and Legolas... um..." Why was it so hard to tell her best friend that she was now dating someone?

"We're together," Legolas helped her, "you know. Like, together as in dating."

Harry's eyes got big. Hermione blushed. Legolas waited for a reaction.

'Ooooh, Ron is going to freak!' Harry thought to himself. Ron had often talked to him about how he liked Hermione and wanted to asked her out, but he never had the courage.

"Um... now would be a good time to actually say something..." Hermione told Harry.

He was saved from having to say anything, though, when the portrait door flew open and Kathy and Sarah ran in looking scared.

"What's up with you two?" Legolas asked.

"Um, nothing!" Sarah squeaked.

"Yeah, just, um..." Kathy racked her brains for something, "uh... Peeves! He was throwing things around in the hall and he nearly got us with a chair. Then he started chasing us with a cane in his hand telling us he was going to beat us with it!" Kathy said hurriedly.

"Yeah... Peeves..." Sarah said nodding.

"Okay, well want to sit down?" Harry offered.

"No, we've go homework," Sarah said her eyes shooting towards the portrait, "we'll uh... see you around!" she and Kathy ran off to the first year girl dormitory.

"That was weird," Harry said.

"Yeah, I wonder what got into them," Hermione commented.

"Who's up to Exploding Snap?" Legolas said taking a new deck of cards from his Hogwarts robes. Harry and Ron had taught him how to play not to long ago.

"I will," Harry said moving his chair towards the table in between him and Legolas.

"You two go ahead, I'm going to go work on that essay for Snape," Hermione said moving to a different table.

They were just about done with their game, when the portrait hole opened and Ron stormed in. He slammed the portrait behind him and Harry's and Legolas's pile of cards fell causing a huge explosion.

"Ron!" Harry said accusingly.

Ron just glanced over at them, glared at Legolas, then stormed off to the boy's dormitory.

"Wonder what got into him," Legolas said, "everyone seems to be acting strange lately."

"Yeah," Harry said looking from Hermione to Legolas again. Did Ron know somehow?

***

Ron didn't show up the rest of that day, and only came out of the dormitory the next day for meals and classes. He avoided Hermione and Legolas, and wouldn't tell Harry what was wrong with him.

"Ron, will you please tell me what's bugging you?" Harry insisted that day at lunch.

Ron didn't say anything, just swirled his potatoes with his fork.

Harry sighed and looked over at Hermione and Legolas sitting a few seats away.

"Is it because of Hermione and Legolas?" he asked timidly.

Ron slammed down his fork and looked at Harry, fire in his eyes.

"Would you mind not mentioning those two around me?" he said coldly.

"Sure..." Harry said cautiously.

"Thanks," Ron answered turning back to his food which he didn't eat and ended up leaving lunch early.

Harry sighed and turned back to his own lunch. Why did life have top be so complicated?

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I am soooooooooooooo very sorry for this not being out earlier! I feel really bad. I told myself that I would finish one story before I started another, but then one thing happened after this and one idea came after another, so sorry for not updating here or anywhere else for a long while!